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Originally Posted by s0xxx
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There's nothing in the online library, the VMWare website, or the documentation that I could find on their site, that makes any mention of hardware virtualisation support in VMWare Workstation 6.0, VMWare Player 2.0, or VMWare Server 1.0.
According to their
VMI Performance PDF, they continue to use binary translation, as their current implementation is faster than their experimental hardware virtualisation implementation. This is for VMWare Server ESX 2.0.
There is mention of a hardware assisted version of the VMM in
this paper from 2006 that mentions experimental support for hardware virtualisation in VMWare Server 1.0.1. However, there is no mention anywhere (that I can find) on their website that says this is actually available and usable.
So, if they support hardware virtualisation, they go to great lengths to hide that information from the public.